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Hi Mav,
-+- Benedikt Mandl benedikt.mandl@gmx.at wrote:
The defined target refered to the question whether wikispecies should cover all species that were described or not. It would be wonderful if this was possible, but yet it is too big of a project to define - others have done that before and failed (see the busted http://www.all-species.org/).
In terms of users: I think that there actually would be some overlapping information of wikipedia and wikispecies - for that reason a stron connection between the two would be very important and beneficial for both. On the other hand I think that the niche for a specifically biology dedicated, taxonomic database such as wikispecies is big and the potential potential applications different enough to justify the existance of a wikispecies in addition to the wikipedia.
OKay - you first state that others have tried and failed. Then you state that it would better to fork this aspect of Wikipedia into a separate project while maintaining overlap. How is dividing the potential workforce between two projects going to be successful?
What do you think of the proposal I sketched out somewhere further up in this thread -- to make Wikispecies not a different database, but only a different interface on the same db, maybe using additional tables, indices? __ . / / / / ... Till Westermayer - till we *) . . . mailto:till@tillwe.de . www.westermayer.de/till/ . icq 320393072 . Habsburgerstr. 82 . 79104 Freiburg . 0761 55697152 . 0160 96619179 . . . . .